Josiah m



@anni @time JostAHM. READ, or Boston, tIAssA-onusn'r'irs.

4 Leners Patent No. 104,497, am@ Jan@ 21, 1870.

GRinIRoNroR s'ro'vns AND musees.Y

. The Schedule referred to in these Lette'ra Patent andv making part ofthe sama.

To all whom 'it may concerif: `Be it known that I, J OSIAH M. READ, ofBoston,

l Suffolk county, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certainneiv` and nseful Improvements in Gridirons for Stoves and Ranges; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part ofthis specication.

'lphe natnre or essence ,of my invention consists in the use orapplication of some arms 0r lugs projecting Upward from the gridiron, tohold and support it in the boiler-hole of a stove or range.

. Gridirons for stoves and ranges have heretofore been made so that'tousethem it was necessary to remove both the covers and the middle orbridge-bar between them, uncoveringr and "dnlling the,:ire,-and allowingthe cold air to reduce the `temperature Vof the oven and retard thebaking. t

. To remedy the inconvenience and defects mentioned is the object of myimprovements, which I effect by making my gridiron so that I` can insertit over the tire` with` its charge of meat, by removing a singlecoverfrorn a boilerhole in the stove or range.

In the accompanying drawing- Y Figures 1 and 2, my improved. gridiron isrepresented.

In this drawing- A A are the end bars, connected-by a series of'Astraight bars, B` B, and the two side bars C C, which are bent near thefront end in the form shown in the-` drawing, to form lugs or arms, D D,projecting np- .l

ward and turned ontward toward the top, as shown in fig. 2.

, The ontcr ends of these arms are intended to rest on the sides of theboiler-hole to support the gridiron, *while the lng or bracket 'E isdrawn back under the top plate of the stove to hold up the rear end ofthe gridiron which extends back over the'iire.

lhe two 'middle bars B B are made to extend out in front of the frontbar A, and are bent up and turned oli', as shown at l, to form a handleto the gridiron.

By the use of the above-described devices the gridiron is held betweenthe re and the top of the stove or covers, Awhich adapts it to toastingbread as well as broiling meat.

What I claimY as my invention and improvement in gridironsfor stoves andranges is he combination, `with the two fingers the stove-plate,prevents the opposite end of the gridiron from sinking, substantially asdescribed.

J OSIAH M. READ.

XVitnesses: v

J. DENNIS, JR., WM. T. HUTCHINSON.

i D. D, 'of the i curved arm or bracket E, which, projecting beneath

